Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Admiral Horatio Nelson - From Captain to Victory (Part 2)" video.

It was the explosion aboard the French flag ship Orient which led to the poem Casabianca, more usually know by the first line 'The boy stood on the burning deck.' The boy, Giocante de Casabianca, being the 12 year old son of the ships captain, Louis de Casabianca. The father had to attend to a problem below deck and told his son to wait on deck until he returned. After the explosion and fire many sailors were abandoning the ship but young Giocante refused to join them because his father had told him to wait there until his return. Unfortunately this led to his death. the author of the poem, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, was herself only only five at the time of the battle but it made such an impression on her that she later wrote the poem.
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